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Bear Creek response regarding VSM
When I recently shared the letter I wrote to Bear Creek Meeting regarding my participation in the Volunteer Service Mission (VSM), I was wondering what the meeting’s response had been. Yesterday I began to review a document I had written … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear Creek, Volunteer Service Mission VSM
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Letter to Bear Creek Concerning VSM
To Bear Creek Monthly Meeting 7/10/1971 Lewis Mott, clerk Dear Friends, I write in relation to a program sponsored by the Friends United Meeting (FUM) which I am now participating in. Known … Continue reading
Journal–Conclusion of Draft Resistance Story
Yesterday I described what happened the first time I turned in my draft card. At my parents request, I asked the draft board to return the draft card, to give my family more time to accept my decision. The draft … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear Creek, draft resistance
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Queries and Action
Continuing to think about Quaker queries, I’ve been stimulated to think more about how we use them. During a recent discussion I said, “isn’t the purpose of queries to lead us to action?” Then I realized we might not all … Continue reading
Civic Responsibility revised
As I’ve been writing recently, we will be discussing the queries about civic responsibility at Bear Creek meeting this month. I was also trying to come up with a new version of the queries. But I think my first attempt … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear Creek, civic responsibility, injustice, legislation, nonviolence, society
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Advices and Queries
Since I’ve been writing about the Quaker practice of considering the advices and queries, and since people who aren’t Quakers sometimes read these blog posts, it might be helpful to step back and explain more about this. Quakers attend a … Continue reading
KHOI Radio Interviews-North Korea Exchange
Following up on recent articles in the Des Moines Register about Iowa and agricultural diplomacy, KHOI (89.1 FM) radio talk producer Susan Franzen created an episode titled “Citizen Diplomacy through agriculture from USSR to PRNC“. From the program’s website: Ambassador Kenneth … Continue reading
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Tagged AFSC, Bear Creek, North Korea
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Reactions to Invitation to North Korea
As discussed here, Bear Creek Friends meeting wrote a letter to the Des Moines Register inviting another visit from a North Korean delegation to discuss agricultural practices. I was wondering what the reader comments would be. Following are what have … Continue reading
Is it impractical to invite North Korean visit?
Yesterday I wrote about the visit by a North Korean delegation to Bear Creek Friends meeting in 2001, and the meeting’s hope a similar visit could happen again. The question of whether such a visit would even be allowed was … Continue reading
Bear Creek Friends Meeting and North Korea
I just wrote about the current interest in the idea of “farm diplomacy” after a couple of editorials were published in the Des Moines Register. Sept. 1, 2017, Kenneth M Quinn, President of the World Food Prize suggested inviting a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear Creek, diplomacy, food, North Korea, Scattergood
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 